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Comparison of several wood smoke markers and source apportionment methods for wood burning particulate mass

Sandradewi

¹ Prévôt

A. S. H.

¹ Alfarra

M. R.

¹ Szidat

² Wehrli

M. N.

² Ruff

² Weimer

¹ ⁷ Lanz

V. A.

³ Weingartner

¹ Perron

¹ Caseiro

⁴ ⁶ Kasper-Giebl

⁴ Puxbaum

⁴ Wacker

⁵ Baltensperger

Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, 3012, Bern, Switzerland

Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, Laboratory for Air Pollution and Environmental Technology, 8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland

Institute for Chemical Technologies and Analytics, Vienna University of Technology, 1060 Vienna, Austria

Institute for Particle Physics, ETH Hoenggerberg, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland

CESAM and Dept. of Environment and Planning, Univ. of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal

Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, Laboratory for Internal Combustion Engines, 8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland

23 04 2008

8 2 8091 8118

2008

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Residential wood combustion has only recently been recognized as a major contributor to air pollution in Switzerland and in other European countries. A source apportionment method using the aethalometer light absorption parameters was applied to five winter campaigns at three sites in Switzerland: a village with high wood combustion activity in winter, an urban background site and a highway site. The particulate mass from traffic (PMtraffic) and wood burning (PMwb) emissions obtained with this model compared fairly well with results from the 14C source apportionment method. PMwb from the model was also compared to well known wood smoke markers such as anhydrosugars (levoglucosan and mannosan) and fine mode potassium, as well as to a marker recently suggested from the Aerodyne aerosol mass spectrometer (mass fragment m/z 60). Additionally the anhydrosugars were compared to the 14C results and were shown to be comparable to literature values from wood burning emission studies using different types of wood (hardwood, softwood). The levoglucosan to PM<sb>wb ratios varied much more strongly between the different campaigns (4–13%) compared to mannosan to PMwb with a range of 1–1.5%. Possible uncertainty aspects for the various methods and markers are discussed.

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